AOHELL Browser Leaks?

[AolSucks]

Has anyone looked at AOHELL's latest browsers (Netscrape 7.1, etc)
source to determine if they datamine or phone home in anyway?

[James E. Morrow]

AolSucks <AolSucks.nomail@aol.com> wrote in
news:3F5BB349.3020506@aol.com:

> Has anyone looked at AOHELL's latest browsers (Netscrape 7.1, etc)
> source to determine if they datamine or phone home in anyway?
>
>

I have been using Netscape 7.1 for sometime now. So far as I can
determine there is no phone home. Just clean up the "free AOLHell"
icons after you install.


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James E. Morrow
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[sponge]

On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 15:38:01 -0700, AolSucks <AolSucks.nomail@aol.com>
wrote:

>Has anyone looked at AOHELL's latest browsers (Netscrape 7.1, etc)
>source to determine if they datamine or phone home in anyway?

I seem to remember version 6 requring "activation". It would try to
connect to activation.netscape.com. It was annoying to kill the nag
screen every time it started, so I gave it the boot. If you like
Netscape, Mozilla 1.4 and Firebird are effectively identical without
the Netscape name.

Sponge
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[siljaline]

On 7 Sep 2003 21:37:39 -0700, yosponge@yahoo.com (sponge) wrote:

><snipped>

sponge, full headers show "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP".
What's that all about... <g>




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because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_

[AolSucks]

Thanks to sponge and James Morrow for their pertinent replies.

sponge wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 15:38:01 -0700, AolSucks <AolSucks.nomail@aol.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>>Has anyone looked at AOHELL's latest browsers (Netscrape 7.1, etc)
>>source to determine if they datamine or phone home in anyway?
>
>
> I seem to remember version 6 requring "activation". It would try to
> connect to activation.netscape.com. It was annoying to kill the nag
> screen every time it started, so I gave it the boot. If you like
> Netscape, Mozilla 1.4 and Firebird are effectively identical without
> the Netscape name.
>
> Sponge
> Sponge's Anti-Spyware Source
> www.geocities.com/yosponge